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Newspaper
Van Wert Weekly Bulletin
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1880
Page
1
A collage of excerpts recounts Secretary Sherman cataloging forty years of letters, a Russian high-stakes gambling episode at the St. Petersburg Yacht Club, and a chilling London tale of a wife aiding a husband in a murder plot. It also recalls Judge Dooly and a fatal swimming boast in Atlantic City.
The Brooklyn Eagle reports General Hancock recounting a counterpoint tale about a lost dog in California. He follows a chain of mistaken identities through a Mexican horseman a Frenchman a doctor and Mrs Hancock to finally learn the dog belonged to neither man.
Crestline and Lima insurers will not issue policies on Republican candidates’ lives in the South. A Louisville citizen sues the city for 10000 damages after a dog bite. Fulton NY employer David Ramsdell uses 700 workers and displays Garfield and Arthur banners. Maud S. runs 213 at Chicago track, fastest on record in that meet. Bandmann clashes with a Chinese laundryman in Salem and is mobbed. Pompeii relics thrill visitors yet are not all shown without special requests. about one third of Pompeii has been uncovered.
Dr. Paul of Philadelphia advertised as the world renowned wizard of human destiny and offered to manage love and marriage affairs for others. He is now jailed for bigamy while a toy pistol inventor complains of its destructive power. A 4th of July toy pistol caused 157 injuries and 14 deaths as cartridges blew wounds and caused lockjaw.
The Count Schouvaloff who recently claimed $3 000 000 from Prince Demidoff at the St Petersburg Yacht Club rooms was urged by the Czar to return seven eight of his winnings and is not a diplomat but an aide de camp at the palace.
The article notes 35.5 million standard dollars in circulation after the silver bill with 17 million returned to the Treasury. It mentions the Madagas car mission service for children and a London Gaiety Theater dancer Ariel, created by Walter Dando, using a jumping apparatus later used by others.
A stark description of a pale figure with sunken eyes and a grave voice. The poem probes the contrast between outward coldness and an inner warmth that longs to tell the soul’s true desires to a higher knowing.
A new fruit picker uses a four to five inch high ring with a crown of six crown points, each covered to protect fruit. A side socket accepts a pole and a bottom hose carries fruit to the hand or basket. An operator or helper handles the pole and hose for detaching fruit.
A Washington dispatch reports a Democratic nominee for a major Pennsylvania state office, once confident about victory, now expressing uncertainty as Grant's order to the Boys in Blue disrupts calculations. Democratic managers fret, with no clear antidote.
A gentleman who married a widow complains of liking a peer's well done, as she recalls how the late Mr Brown enjoyed his meals. She vows to try and forget the poor dear.
The Belgian Academy of medicine notes Dr. Fabre’s findings that coal absorbs oxygen dramatically, creating low oxygen air for miners. Gases from slow coal combustion further contaminate air. He concludes air supply is more vital than light and calls for improved mine ventilation.
The Boston Transcript describes a crowd of women in church using fans with varied styles. It names Mrs Placidine Miss Marionet Deacon Jones Miss Touchmenot Miss Danelwan Mrs Marriwell and others noting pendulum like, fluttering, languid and nervous movements and even a fan used as a nose-rest.
The census shows Rhode Island at 978,710 with a gain of 59,307 or 27.28 percent mostly from French German and Irish immigration. All but five towns rose, yet the state’s size remains smaller than three wards in Providence, while it sends two Senators, making one Rhode Island vote roughly equal to seventeen in New York.
In 1862 Ohio Senate debate on a measure allowing soldiers to vote, Seneca county representative Lang was among the four dissenters. He now seeks Ohio Secretary of State over Union soldier Major Townsend, a political clash linking past vote to current bid.
Two Galveston women exchange sharp banter as one narrator accuses the other of scandal regarding a picnic during a husband’s illness. The other insists the tale is a vile slander and clarifies it was merely an excursion.
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